Five Star Trust: Family, the CIA, and the spy who invented Pickleball

The son of a spy gets greedy about his father’s connection to dark money as the dying spy uses his son to complete the unfinished business. That’s the initial conceit of my memoir, Five Star Trust.My father lived a double life as a CIA operative during the 1970’s in South East Asia and our family was organized around his badly kept secret.In 2009, when Dad retired to fight cancer, I began to read his personal files to piece together what his covert work actually entailed. He claimed that he had been tasked to make a lot of money disappear and to sever any connection to the mythical Five Star Fund. Could I occupy myself on a treasure hunt rather than deal with a dying parent?This memoir also details my dad’s one straight-forward legacy: he and his best friend cooked-up Pickleball the Summer of 1965. Read more